Brasilia.- Judge Carmen Lúcia Antunes, of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), found this Friday former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2029-2022) guilty of abuses of power and In this way, he formed a majority that is inclined to strip him of all his political rights for eight years.
“I want to advance that I fully support the rapporteur,” said Antunes at the beginning of the reading of his vote, which joins three others who have already considered Bolsonaro guilty of abuses of power in the framework of the electoral campaign that brought to power the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Antunes thus alluded to the vote of Judge Benedito Gonçalves, rapporteur of the process, who asked to condemn Bolsonaro for a meeting that he convened with fifty foreign ambassadors at the official residence of the Presidency, on July 18, 2022, to disqualify the electoral system and sow doubts about the impartiality of the Judiciary, at a time when he was aspiring to re-election.
Although the majority of four votes out of a total of seven is established with the position of Judge Antunes, any of the TSE members can still modify their opinion until the end of the trial and the official proclamation of the result.
When Antunes concludes the justification of his vote, Kassio Nunes Marques, a judge promoted by Bolsonaro to the Supreme Court and the TSE, with an ultra-conservative nature and who is said to be able to ask for more time to analyze the case, which would suspend the process for 60, must pronounce. days.
If Nunes Marques speaks, the last vote will be for magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, who during the electoral process that led to the victory of the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was virulently attacked by Bolsonaro and the far-right that supports him.
